Project:New contributors/One ontology
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A common vocabulary to classify items across all our tools
Call it categories, keywords, topics, tags, metadata... What we need is one set of words applied consistently to wiki content, helping to connect related people, nodes, projects, tasks and events.
- Location: cities, regions...
- Contributors' activities: based on the How to contribute structure.
- Programming languages: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Puppet...
- Human languages: English, German, Hindi...
- FLOSS projects:
- Wikitech / MediaWiki projects.
- Other free software / free knowledge projects.
- Task identificators: [priority], [severity], easy, mentored, patch-in-gerrit...
This ontology should be consistent with the rest of the tools we use, enabling easier, even automatic connections and aggregation of content:
- Bugzilla keywords.
- Gerrit tags.
- Wikimedia tech blog tags.
If you want to promote a bug, a changeset, or a post to a specific set of contributors, tag it accordingly in your tool. We might not have the technical solutions to automate this promotion today, but consistent tagging is already useful to ease manual work.